Has the Church Become too Much Show and not Enough Truth?

Fearless with Cissie Graham Lynch

Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

I have noticed many red flags in a number of churches today. What should the church actually look like?

During the first episode of our fall series, “The Elephant in the Room,” I identify some of the issues I’ve seen inside churches today and what I believe to be the church’s greatest stumbling block.

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0:00.0	Has the church become more about a production for you and less about evangelism and discipleship?
0:06.0	That is what we're going to discuss on today's first episode in the series,
0:09.6	Elephant in the Room.
0:10.9	Hi, I'm Cissy Graham Lynch.
0:15.0	Welcome to Fearless, helping you have a fearless faith in a compromising culture. Feeling. Welcome back to Fearless. I am here in my office at the Billy Graham
0:38.0	Evangelistic Association. I always love being back in the office here in
0:41.0	Charlotte, North Carolina. For this series of elephant in the office here in Charlotte, North Carolina. For this series of
0:44.3	elephant in the room kicking off this series as I introduced in the last episode,
0:48.8	we're going to talk about what should church look like? Has church become more of a huge Sunday
0:55.1	production and have we taken our eyes off what God has called us to be? And it was
0:59.4	after the pandemic that I had a colleague talked to me that he and his family were trying to re-evaluate
1:05.8	what does church look like for them? They had gone to a huge church, a mega church, and was that what was best for their
1:12.0	family after the pandemic and wanting a smaller
1:16.6	community of believers and more kind of a Bible study setting. But I think, of course, we could all agree the last few years
1:26.2	has revealed a lot about the church here in America
1:30.0	that we have had great division over different issues such as race, social justice
1:36.2	versus a biblical justice, critical race theory, LGBTQ issues, politics, and those are issues that are not new here to Fearless.
1:45.8	We've talked about some of those issues, but as a church as a whole, and I think
1:50.8	this summer is what broke my heart the most when the Supreme Court
1:56.6	announced that Roe versus Wade would be overturned. I was watching the news
2:00.4	in Alaska, it was the only day I turned on the news this summer in Alaska
2:03.9	and just tears came to my eyes of the celebration of something we worked for for 50
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